Liberals: Assume I’m Right and You’re Wrong

Now, this is not going to be an effort-free exercise. You’re going to have to put forth your hand, stretch your mind, and, see things from my perspective — i.e., the truth. Are you willing and able to even see the truth? Trust me on this: the Left has tried mightily to blind you to the truth since Left first became Left. That is to say, your entire system of beliefs is founded on a lie. In ignorance. On false premises.

It’s going to mean you must research the facts of your position and be ready to accept the truth. No hedging. No persiflage. No prevarication. No “greater truth.” (If you are urged to accept the greater ANYthing, you are, in essence, being asked to support a moral lapse in favor of an illusion. The so-called Greater Good subsumes a supposedly “Lesser” evil. But evil is a binary condition — something is or is not. There can be no shades of gray. And the claim that they exist is an attempt to blind you to the moral reality. The very notion of shades of gray in moral terms is a lie. It is evil. Not lesser: period. Plain old-fashioned evil.

No. A so-called “greater” good — an infringement against rights, for example, for the benefit of a majority (the “greater” part of this equivocation) — always subsumes a greater evil. No doubt, the Nazis would claim that the Holocaust was for the greater good. And, Godwin notwithstanding, so it goes. Someone always makes a sacrifice — and if it were willing, why would anyone have to ask? — in such a case. If you kill someone in the service of the “greater good” does that make your act not-murder? How does that work? Can you explain the mechanics of that?

Or, take global warming. The original term was CAGW — Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming. Both Alger and I have long demanded that, in order for the phenomenon to be worthy of humanity’s attention, ALL FOUR of the conditions must be satisfied, and any one of them failing on the merits invalidates the entire warmist argument. This is not a matter of opinion. It is self-evident fact. Moving the goalposts by changing the name of it to Climate Change is equally invalid. Climate is change. Asserting that a primary characteristic of a phenomenon is that which renders it problematic is what the logic folks call a tautology.

So, here’s where you have to exercise your mind. In order to test the notion of CAGW, indeed, to utterly debunk it, you need only find the answer to one question: the warmist conjecture asserts that the global temperature has risen x degrees over a period of centuries (one-point-five, or whatever). Fine. Here’s the kicker: How do they know? They are asserting a fact. Indeed, this fact is at the core of their argument. Without it, there is no argument. They are asserting that the temperature of the Earth has risen 1.7 degrees Centigrade since 1750. Or 1870. Or 1978. How. Do. They. Know? Show me the CarFax. There should be spreadsheets of data, attested to, certified, countersigned, and tested by repeated experimental verification. There should be ABSOLUTELY no doubt as to what the temperature of the Earth is right now. You should be able to surf to Weather Underground and get a number. It is 35 degrees Fahrenheit out there, folks. Or 53. It should lead the news report every evening at six and eleven.

Right? No-wait warming before the first commercial?

So, do some research. Look up the datasets. Import them into Excel. Do trend analysis. Or, accept as gospel the trend analysis available on the sites where the datasets are posted on the Web. Look at the metadata. How many sites are there? Where are they positioned? What areas of the globe to they cover? What areas are missed?

The more you learn about this subject, the closer you come to satori — to the realization, the enlightenment that there’s no there there. That there is no evidence — none whatsoever — that backs up the warmist assertion.

Now, it seems a reasonable assumption that, since the Northern Hemisphere was coming out of the Little Ice Age just as the Industrial Revolution was kicking into high gear, it’s a pretty good bet that the Earth has warmed — perhaps substantially — since then. But, as Alger has said many time in many venues, at the moment, the only proof the so-called “settled science” has put forth is that when we’ve looked where we’ve looked, the available data seems to indicate a warming trend — albeit nowhere near the intensity the warmists would have you believe. But that’s a helluva long way from proof or — gagme — “settled” science.

But da Doll is trying to make a larger point. That the foundations of your political beliefs are built on sand. Go ahead. Do your own research on warming. It’s easy to do. The actual data is readily available. Truly qualified scientists have gone over the data, the theory, its conclusions, and have thoroughly debunked it all. You won’t have to dig very hard to reach the inevitable conclusion.

And, as you do, you’ll come to recognize patterns. A certain shrillness of insistence. Patterns of illogic — argumentum ad hominem, appeal to authority, post hoc ergo propter hoc, playing liars poker with statistics — a hollowness of assertions, a tendacious mendacity: “Who are you gonna believe? Me or your lying eyes?” A tendency to use sleight of hand and other tricks of misdirection to distract you from facts you know for certain.

And, as you expand your search for knowledge to other fields — rights, the use of government largesse to buy votes and peddle influence, the corruption and abuses inherent in all government, without regard to intent or the putative integrity of those involved, the legitimacy (or lack thereof) of using government’s monopoly on the initiation of the use of force to coerce involuntary surrender to demands for specific behavior against conscience — you will come to recognize these earmarks of the Leftist argumentarium. These earmarks of Left-liberal fascism.

And, if you are honest with yourself, you will come to realize the truth in my position and, when you come out of the experience, I believe you will be at least a libertarian — a true liberal — if not a Buckley-ian conservative. As Milton Friedman put it: a small-l libertarian and a capital-R Republican.

And then we’ll have to educate you to capital-R Republican perfidy in opposition to ordered liberty.

6 responses to “Liberals: Assume I’m Right and You’re Wrong”

You are conflating the “greater good” with political manipulation of public oppinion, which is exactly what your post is about.

For instance, I accept the greater good of my family (the majority) over my individual desires. I refrain from doing things i would like to do and do things I don’t want to do because its better for the group.

I accept that there is a greater good of the community, and as such I don’t do things I may want to do that would endanger or disrupt my community.

If I were to come across a mugging or a rape in progress, helping would be opposed to self interest. However, I live in a society that sees these acts as wrong, I would help out of a desire to uphold the values of my society. Values are upheld for the greater good.

What you are upset about is groups using political or social influence to work against the greater good. Proponents attempt to convince us that it is for the greater good, but global warming is an obvious scam to increase the power and wealth of an inside group, as such it is detrimental the greater good.

As an aside, the Nazis are a poor example. Whatever you and i may think of them, they were working for their values, which included German hegemony of Europe and no jews, no commies, no gays, etc. Their values came into conflict with the values of other groups and competition in the form of war ensued . History is nothing but a record of group competition.

You are engaged in tendentious mendacity, moving the goalposts, strawman argument, and false attribution — all typical leftist tricks.

The post is about what it says it’s about. You don’t need to engage in pomo litcrit in order to put words in my mouth. You can pay me obscene sums of money to get me to do that. I’m a whore. I insist on giving good value for valuta received. If you’re not used to paying for it, that makes me suspect you’re a liberal yourself — always looking for the gimme.

The argument urging something be done for the greater good is always and only ever used in support of the unsupportable. You also remind me of Marge Schott, with your, “The Nazis were good by their own lights and were working for the good of the Germany people.” Of course. The devil is never evil in his own eyes. And blah-blah-blah. The devil quotes scripture, too. If a proposed action were self-evidently, unalloyed good, then there would need to be no argument made in its favor, claiming that this evil we commit is being done for the greater good.

Oh, and I’m not upset. Cool as a cucumber. Trained killer and all that.

Wonderful post! It is always an exercise in frustration for me to attempt to debate facts in evidence with liberals. They immediately resort to ad homonym attacks, usually “I hate you, you racist!” I just laugh at their childish attempts at factual statements. “You are entitled to your own opinions, but not your own set of facts.” “Follow the money” is always the maxim. This is not pure science; Al Gore has made over 95 million dollars selling this modern day snake oil, claiming he is trying to save the planet. Boo hoo! 40 years ago chicken little was hysterical over an impending Ice Age coming. Never happened. This past week we had “Global Warming Scientists” trapped in Antarctic ice. Poetic justice. As of yesterday, the Obama administration has given 7.45 billion to foreign countries for global warming studies. Stop the madness!

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